Marlin: Rudy shouldn’t be GOP’s choice

For months now, Rudy Giuliani has been mulling, in Hamlet-like fashion, whether or not to seek the Republican nomination for governor of New York. Since I do not expect him to seek my counsel (I was Rudy’s 1993 Conservative Party mayoral opponent) I’m using this public forum to list reasons why Giuliani should not run ...

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It’s no wonder that Rudy Guiliani doesn’t resonate with conservative-value people. He’s an adulterer who announced he was divorcing his second wife in a press conference, then paraded his mistress around town as his official escort before finally marrying her.

As for the city commuter tax, I commuted via LIRR for over 10 years. I never had an issue paying the tax. I used Manhattan services, so paying the .625% or whatever it was never seemed that onerous.

George Marlin has always been against Rudy, so its no surpirse that he is against a run for Governor by Rudy before Rudy has even announced his intentions.

So if not Rudy, then who would Marlin like to see run?

Rick Lazio may be a better fit for the Conservative party, but he is a longshot against the probable Democratic nominee, Andrew Cuomo.

But then again, the Conservative party is not about winning elections, rather they are solely about promoting their ideology of: 1) Fiscal conservatism; 2) Tradtitional lifestyles; and 3) Opposition to central government planning. Just look at Buckley’s and Marlin’s own run for NYC Mayor.

What’s interesting to note is that the Conservative party was more than willing to look the other way at Pataki’s profligate spending in giving him their party line in 1998 and 2002. I guess you can’t be pure all of the time, can you George?

So in essence Marlin wants the right candidate to espouse the right’s message in another losing campaing that will only warm the hearts of the Conservative party faithful.

While Marlin notes that no Republican has won a statewide election without the Conservative party line since 1974, he fails to mention that he detests the two most prominent Republicans to do so (Al D’Amato and George Pataki).

So why not cut to the chase George and say you want another ideologically driven candidate who will say the right things, but utltimately lose in the end?

But then again, we know that if that ideologically pure candidate where to somehow win the Governor’s race you’d just come to loathe him or her eventually anyway.

It just goes to show that its far easier to throw stones from the sidelines and maintain your ideological purity than to actually tackle the difficult choices that come with governing.

If ideology is the prominent factor in any candidate, then that candidate should be held suspect. Years ago I had the friendship of a very effective president of a union, I asked him; “You’ll be meeting with the Democratic congressman today, are you supporting him?”
“Yes, if he supports what we need, at the same time we will interview the Republican candidate. We will support the candidate that understands our needs.”

This approach is called “practical politics” Otherwise ideolgy becomes idiot-ology. If Mr.Guliani speaks to New Yorkers in terms of what we need as a state, he’ll have chance, otherwise, not so much.

Rudy managed to govern what for years was considered an “ungovernable” city, and in fact, was responsible for its renaissance by implementing reforms and holding everyone – politicians, civil servants and citizens alike – accountable. Why wouldn’t we want that for New York, the state that for so long has labeled “dysfunctional?” Let the facts speak for themsleves and don’t be distracted by idealogy – liberal or conservative. The average folks just want someone to get things under control so we can work and raise our families.

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LIBN columnist George Marlin is the author of "Narcissist Nation: Reflections of a Blue-State Conservative.